Tortured Quotes

268 quotes by 234 authors

The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back to… — Unknown Author
If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not. — Unknown Author
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. — Albert Camus
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured. — Oscar Romero
Who knows if the one whose hands are bloodied with Father Grande's murder, or the one who shot Father Navarro, if those who have killed,… — Oscar Romero
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or… — Peter Cundall
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and… — Mark Twain
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each… — Arundhati Roy
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. — Robert Rauschenberg
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved… — Marian Keyes
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with… — Adrienne Rich
And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were… — Unknown Author
If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, thatâ€™s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great… — Joss Whedon
Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so… — Anton Yelchin
It's time to sort of get back to a basic message, the message that was given. At this time, the world has gone nuts, I… — Mel Gibson
It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty… — Ellen Page
Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being… — Mike Caro
When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles. — Julia Duffy

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